We talk about a writer’s persona, who she is on the page, how she appears to readers and fans. But we don’t always think about  all her responsibilities for a full life. Somehow many of my health care concerns have drifted together like the plastic gyre in the Pacific. All my preventive screenings have fallen…

Colorado lost a good friend and important poet on September 26th. I think of Cold Mountain and long to leap the world’s ties, sit with him amongst the clouds. from “Autumn Night: Cold Mountain,” Michael Adams

Somehow Gmail has misplaced the account poetslab@gmail.com. If you have been trying to reach me via that address, resend to kvdbooks@gmail.com. Thanks.   The problem, no thanks to Google, has been solved. The address poetslab@gmail.com is again accessible.

Almost any writer I know thinks about money, how much it costs to establish a writing practice, how little most writers earn from their art, how commercial the world is. Best Sellers are just that, a list, not of the best books, but of the books that sell the most copies. And as the cliche…